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Camus
“Albert Camus with some timeless prose.” (30 January 2025)
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Posts11
Retweets1,470
Likes8,767
First post22 April 2018
Latest post1 July 2025
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Camus appears in only 11 posts, but one of them, an image of the invincible summer passage, accounts for most of the engagement on the whole page. GritCult embraces Camus as a writer of inner resilience and rejects him as a counsellor of acceptance, preferring to smash Sisyphus's rock than to push it.

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The invincible summer is the centre of it. He posted the line 'IN THE MIDST OF WINTER, I FOUND THERE WAS, WITHIN ME, AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER' twice in 2021 [1], and in January 2025 shared the longer passage around it as an image captioned 'Albert Camus with some timeless prose.' [2]. Five months later the same passage went out again as 'Albert Camus with a banger.' [3]. What he prizes is the idea of something inside a man that pushes back harder than the world pushes, a note echoed in cards such as 'MEN MUST LIVE AND CREATE. LIVE TO THE POINT OF TEARS' [4].

Sisyphus is another matter. In 2018 he recommended The Myth of Sisyphus as 'good philosophical reading' [5] and, in a reply naming Sartre and Nietzsche, called the übermensch and Sisyphus 'a type of stoicism and acceptance' [6]. By 2019, discussing his own book, he had turned against it: 'Man fuck that acceptance pushing a rock shit. Slave labour', followed by 'Be Faust and smash that rock to smithereens. That's the Faustian way.' [7]. The reversal tracks the account's Faustian turn of that year, and it leaves Camus valued for the invincible summer but overruled on Sisyphus.

Recurring themes

  • an invincible summer within
  • living to the point of tears
  • Sisyphus rejected as slave labour
  • Faustian striving over absurd acceptance

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 1,342 retweets:

Albert Camus with some timeless prose.
GRITCULT on X, 30 January 2025

Selected posts

All 11 posts in the archive about Camus, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

DateRetweetsLikesPostMediaSource
30 January 20251,3427,891Albert Camus with some timeless prose.Post imageView
1 July 2025107707Albert Camus with a banger.Post imageView
6 April 2021756"IN THE MIDST OF WINTER, I FOUND THERE WAS, WITHIN ME, AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER." - ALBERT CAMUSView
2 June 2021646"IN THE MIDST OF WINTER, I FOUND THERE WAS, WITHIN ME, AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER." - ALBERT CAMUSView
13 August 2021326MAN IS THE ONLY CREATURE WHO REFUSES TO BE WHAT HE IS. ALBERT CAMUSView
19 February 2022215MEN MUST LIVE AND CREATE. LIVE TO THE POINT OF TEARS. - ALBERT CAMUSView
30 January 2019211@LogoCentrifuge @JCasstles @GeoFFuryBear @Libera_Rex @charles2reality @TheBrometheus @alekosdaimon @AbeLopezAuthor @Sociopathlete @TheAvtoritet @PathToManliness @Kairos0101 @MirakhorHassan @archaicstory @socgenexp @startuployalist @ormpho @armor123123 @NielsKnk @cognazor @JamesPDowling @chiefchuck2k @joserosado @StoicGoatFarmer @BenjaminGJW @mcclay_roman @thomasjbevan1 @David_JWest @NobleBooks @TJRicks_TSP @EdLatimore @RealBobbyDino I actually talk about Sisyphus in the book.

Man fuck that acceptance pushing a rock shit. Slave labour

Be Faust and smash that rock to smithereens. That's the Faustian way.

#FAUSTgang		View
22 April 201811two come to me: satre and neitzsche
on ubermen and sisyphus a type of stoicism and acceptance

the state of world is the state of the world, the more i learn and peer into the crystal ball of history the more i realise the world was always similar,

either way it doesnt matter		View
12 May 2021010"A FREE PRESS CAN OF COURSE BE GOOD OR BAD, BUT, MOST CERTAINLY, WITHOUT FREEDOM IT WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT BAD." - ALBERT CAMUSView
14 June 201803@joeturpinjoey whos that

it was more to do with albert camus and his philosophy and reasoning behind suicide

he rationalises existence = absurd
suicide as a response to absurdity		View
21 May 201801@Teniisliveo yeah i know, its a Sisyphean task
see: the myth of sisyphus, good philosophical reading.

yeah ofc, nothing has changed in me, just more stoic, and ambivalent with it, life goes on and such init		View

History

GritCult first posted about Camus on 22 April 2018, and most recently on 1 July 2025. Across the archive the subject comes up 11 times, most often in 2021 (4 posts).

See also

The Philosophers portal

References

  1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 April 2021). IN THE MIDST OF WINTER, I FOUND THERE WAS, WITHIN ME, AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER. X.
  2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 January 2025). Albert Camus with some timeless prose. X.
  3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (1 July 2025). Albert Camus with a banger. X.
  4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (19 February 2022). MEN MUST LIVE AND CREATE. LIVE TO THE POINT OF TEARS. X.
  5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (21 May 2018). see: the myth of sisyphus, good philosophical reading. X.
  6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (22 April 2018). on ubermen and sisyphus a type of stoicism and acceptance. X.
  7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 January 2019). Man fuck that acceptance pushing a rock shit. Slave labour ... Be Faust and smash that rock to smithereens. That's the Faustian way. X.
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